This project aims to develop a collaborative approach to collecting, assessing, monitoring and disseminating salmon habitat data and knowledge in the Skeena region of British Columbia.

The four main outcomes of the project are:

Government agencies, First Nations and wild salmon supporters enabled to assess cumulative impacts to wild salmon ecosystems from potential shifts in climate and hydrological regimes coupled with proposed resource development plans in the Skeena watershed.

Government agencies, First Nations and wild salmon advocates enabled to use habitat benchmarks for assessing risk of industrial development on salmon habitat.

Integration of watershed-scale assessment data into government and First Nations decision-making (demonstrated for key Skeena tributaries).

Alternative institutional mechanism established to enable ongoing government, First Nations and public access to the best available information to support natural resource decision-making.